Mechanical Design - Powertrain design
Powertrain design is fundamentally an equilibrium between power required and power available. Traditionally, vehicles generate power through internal combust...
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Fastener design
There is no way around it, working in design will mean implementation of fasterners; one way or another. Therefore, properly understanding and designing fast...
Beating the bookie and winning
As long as society, people like to beat the odds and win; be it a race, or guessing game. We, humans like to gamble and more importantly, we like to win. Bet...
Design against fatigue failure
As was discussed previously, cyclic loading is more likely to lead to fatigue failure. Under fatigue, structures fail much sooner than their respective mater...
Design against static failure
Engineering design narrows down to “will the structure fail”. Failure occurs when the structure cannot support the applied loading conditions and it breaks d...